Tue 12/22, Mon 1/4, Tue 1/5
Marshmallow Launcher Project Get a set of equipment and rule sheet from Leslie. Build some sort of mechanism that will launch a mini marshmallow towards a target 2 meters away.
Mon 12/21 - Base camp, no class
Fri 12/18 Make-up: Use the internet to do the following: 1) Define trebuchet. 2) Define catapult. What kind of potential energy is used for each?
Eureka 20 - Temperature Scales (review of Thursday)
Junkyard Wars - let's get ready for marshmallow launchers!
Thu 12/17 Make-up: Use page from file to answer worksheet on Temperature scales Temperature scales are arbitrary! Kelvin is the only one where zero means "nothing" Hands in water demo -- we are lousy thermometers!
Wed 12/16 Make-up: Watch Eureka 19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMg1bmF5BVo and answer the following questions. 1) What will happen to a full balloon left in the sun? 2) Why would this happen? 3) Why is there space left between pieces of concrete on a bridge? Temperature and Heat prior knowledge sheet Ball and ring demonstration Simulator of gas molecules Temperature measures average kinetic energy
Fri 12/11 Make-up work: #1-4b of Momentum and Impulse review (in file) Brainstormed safety devices that increase time to stop and so decrease force Whiteboard - what are the questions asking for and what do they want? Which equation? Practice on worksheet
Thu 12/10 Make-up work: Answer the following questions (also in file) in terms of impulse and momentum. 1) When swinging a baseball bat, why does follow through lead to the baseball leaving the bat with greater velocity? 2) Is a dish less likely to break if it falls onto a tile floor or a carpeted floor? 3) Why are airbags in cars a good idea? Catching a baseball barehanded and water balloon catching contests Impulse is change in momentum Watched ESPN "Relaxing with Impulse"
Wed 12/9 Make-up: Schedule time with Leslie to do lab activity Marble Madness: Different marbles down ruler ramps into other marbles on rulers Does it seem like momentum is conserved?
Marble Madness
Tue 12/8 Make-up work: Use the internet or your brain to answer the following question: What are 3 situations where something big going slower affects something small to make it go much faster? (Slip in file) Watched "Blobbing" and related it to conservation of momentum OAS - Daisy Cutter also conservation of momentum Watched ESPN "Running with Momentum" video and created questions for the Daily 3
Mon 12/7 Make-up work: Do momentum practice problems 1-4b Where do we hear momentum in daily life? Sports, being on a roll,... Whiteboard practice using momentum equation Worksheet practice mom. = m*v
Fri 12/3 Make-up: Google "mythbuster results" and summarize how they tested any 3 myths (http://mythbustersresults.com/) Mythbusters: Dumpster Dive and Bubble Wrap both about changing momentum over more TIME to create less FORCE
Thu 12/3 - NO SCHOOL
Staff development day
Wed 12/2 Make-up work: Get CD 8-1 worksheet from file and complete all but #4 Stop a cannon ball with your foot? Momentum is inertia in motion Newton's cradle demos Racquetball on basketball demo Conservation means total momentum stays that same Practice worksheet
Tue 12/1 Make-up work: Get CD 9-1 from file and complete 1-5 & 7 Reviewing Work, Power, and Energy (CPPs) Eureka 9: Kinetic Energy Worksheet that reviewed all from this quarter
Mon 11/23 - Tue 11/24 - Mon 11/30 Make-up work: Get roller coaster project packet from Leslie and complete. You will need a computer that runs JAVA (a smartphone probably won't work). Explore PhET Energy Skate Park simulator Design and build a roller coaster Draw and label the energy along your ride both without and with friction
Fri 11/20 Make-up work: #1 use the packet in the file (or the internet) to find the calories in one of your favorite fast foods. #2 Convert the calories to Joules (1 Calorie = 4184 Joules). #3 use the packet in the file (or the internet) to find how long it would take you to burn off those calories at an exercise of your choice. - Find the power needed for a couple of fitness activities - Discuss how work, energy, and power are related to calories and food
Thu 11/19 Make-up work: Get fake data and complete lab sheet (in file) Defining POWER -- everyday life and in physics Power = work / time and is measured in Watts Determining our power running up the stairs.
Wed 11/18 Make-up work: Get toy popper data and complete lab worksheet (in file) Watched Eureka 10: Potential Energy Measured height of toy popper and conservation of energy to calculate how fast it was going when it left the ground
Tue 11/17 Make-up work:Use the internet or notes to answer these questions: 1) If I roll a ball across a flat floor, it eventually stops. Where does the energy go? 2) Once I pick my feet up off the ground on a swing, I can get myself higher and higher. Where does the energy of motion come from? 3) Where do cows get their energy? Watched Sports Figures: Tony Hawk perpetual motion? Everything is solar powered???
Mon 11/16 Make-up work: Complete worksheet CD 9-2 front except for challenge problem (in file) Reviewed energy changes from Friday Conservation means total energy stays the same Applied conservation to examples where gravitational potential energy (GPE) turned into kinetic energy (KE) GPE depends directly on height KE Eureka video
Fri 11/13 Make-up work: Get packet and complete graphic organizer (in file) Energy is the ability to do work! (Both measured in Joules) Identified 3 kinds of Potential energy and 2 kinds of Kinetic Energy Tried 6 demos around the room of how energy changed from one form to another
Thu 11/12 Make-up: N/A
Science Museum Field Trip - Make-up day / Mythbusters
Wed 11/11 Make-up work: Get class data (in file) and then write a summary Try pulling a dishwasher (500 g mass) into a truck using ramp at different angles What did we find? No free lunches -- all about the same amount of work!
Tue 11/10 Make-up work: Complete "work"sheet #1-5 (in file) Create examples of work Catchy Physics Phrases: force and work Eureka 8: work Practice using the formula W=F*d
Mon 11/9 Make-up work: Use the internet or notes to answer the following questions: 1&2) What are two different everyday meanings of the word work (OTHER THAN having a job)? 3) If I blow up a balloon, am I doing physics work? Why or why not? (Slip in file) Brainstormed: What does work mean in everyday life? In physics: work is when a force causes a displacement 4 demos: Did Leslie do physics work?
Quarter #2: Work, Energy, Power, Momentum, Heat
Fri 1/15
Radiation
Thu 1/14
Conduction and Convection
Wed 1/13
Specific Heat Capacity and intro to Conduction
Tue 1/12
Heat mixes pt 2
Mon 1/11
Heat mixes part 1
Fri 1/8
Video - NOVA: Making things colder
(Completing the viewing guide serves as a make-up assignment)
Thu 1/7
Make-up: Get True/False sheet, pick 6 to answer why the statement is true or false.
Numbered Heads Together True/False challenge
Wed 1/6
Make-up: CD 21-1 worksheet
Eureka video - Heat vs Temperature
RHR Refresher for Leslie's room
Tue 1/5
Make-up: N/A
Thermometer game - where do the number cards go?
Score last of the marshmallow launchers
Tue 12/22, Mon 1/4, Tue 1/5
Marshmallow Launcher Project
Get a set of equipment and rule sheet from Leslie. Build some sort of mechanism that will launch a mini marshmallow towards a target 2 meters away.
Mon 12/21 - Base camp, no class
Fri 12/18
Make-up: Use the internet to do the following: 1) Define trebuchet. 2) Define catapult. What kind of potential energy is used for each?
Eureka 20 - Temperature Scales (review of Thursday)
Junkyard Wars - let's get ready for marshmallow launchers!
Thu 12/17
Make-up: Use page from file to answer worksheet on Temperature scales
Temperature scales are arbitrary!
Kelvin is the only one where zero means "nothing"
Hands in water demo -- we are lousy thermometers!
Wed 12/16
Make-up: Watch Eureka 19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMg1bmF5BVo
and answer the following questions. 1) What will happen to a full balloon left in the sun? 2) Why would this happen? 3) Why is there space left between pieces of concrete on a bridge?
Temperature and Heat prior knowledge sheet
Ball and ring demonstration
Simulator of gas molecules
Temperature measures average kinetic energy
Tue 12/15
Make-up: Schedule a time with Leslie to take the test
Test on Work, Power, Energy, Momentum, and Impulse
Mon 12/14
Jeopardy Review - Work, Power, Energy, Momentum
Fri 12/11
Make-up work: #1-4b of Momentum and Impulse review (in file)
Brainstormed safety devices that increase time to stop and so decrease force
Whiteboard - what are the questions asking for and what do they want? Which equation?
Practice on worksheet
Thu 12/10
Make-up work: Answer the following questions (also in file) in terms of impulse and momentum. 1) When swinging a baseball bat, why does follow through lead to the baseball leaving the bat with greater velocity? 2) Is a dish less likely to break if it falls onto a tile floor or a carpeted floor? 3) Why are airbags in cars a good idea?
Catching a baseball barehanded and water balloon catching contests
Impulse is change in momentum
Watched ESPN "Relaxing with Impulse"
Wed 12/9
Make-up: Schedule time with Leslie to do lab activity
Marble Madness: Different marbles down ruler ramps into other marbles on rulers
Does it seem like momentum is conserved?
Marble Madness
Tue 12/8
Make-up work: Use the internet or your brain to answer the following question: What are 3 situations where something big going slower affects something small to make it go much faster? (Slip in file)
Watched "Blobbing" and related it to conservation of momentum
OAS - Daisy Cutter also conservation of momentum
Watched ESPN "Running with Momentum" video and created questions for the Daily 3
Mon 12/7
Make-up work: Do momentum practice problems 1-4b
Where do we hear momentum in daily life? Sports, being on a roll,...
Whiteboard practice using momentum equation
Worksheet practice mom. = m*v
Fri 12/3
Make-up: Google "mythbuster results" and summarize how they tested any 3 myths (http://mythbustersresults.com/)
Mythbusters: Dumpster Dive and Bubble Wrap
both about changing momentum over more TIME to create less FORCE
Thu 12/3 - NO SCHOOL
Staff development day
Wed 12/2
Make-up work: Get CD 8-1 worksheet from file and complete all but #4
Stop a cannon ball with your foot?
Momentum is inertia in motion
Newton's cradle demos
Racquetball on basketball demo
Conservation means total momentum stays that same
Practice worksheet
Tue 12/1
Make-up work: Get CD 9-1 from file and complete 1-5 & 7
Reviewing Work, Power, and Energy (CPPs)
Eureka 9: Kinetic Energy
Worksheet that reviewed all from this quarter
Mon 11/23 - Tue 11/24 - Mon 11/30
Make-up work: Get roller coaster project packet from Leslie and complete. You will need a computer that runs JAVA (a smartphone probably won't work).
Explore PhET Energy Skate Park simulator
Design and build a roller coaster
Draw and label the energy along your ride both without and with friction
Fri 11/20
Make-up work: #1 use the packet in the file (or the internet) to find the calories in one of your favorite fast foods. #2 Convert the calories to Joules (1 Calorie = 4184 Joules). #3 use the packet in the file (or the internet) to find how long it would take you to burn off those calories at an exercise of your choice.
- Find the power needed for a couple of fitness activities
- Discuss how work, energy, and power are related to calories and food
Thu 11/19
Make-up work: Get fake data and complete lab sheet (in file)
Defining POWER -- everyday life and in physics
Power = work / time and is measured in Watts
Determining our power running up the stairs.
Wed 11/18
Make-up work: Get toy popper data and complete lab worksheet (in file)
Watched Eureka 10: Potential Energy
Measured height of toy popper and conservation of energy to calculate how fast it was going when it left the ground
Tue 11/17
Make-up work:Use the internet or notes to answer these questions: 1) If I roll a ball across a flat floor, it eventually stops. Where does the energy go? 2) Once I pick my feet up off the ground on a swing, I can get myself higher and higher. Where does the energy of motion come from? 3) Where do cows get their energy?
Watched Sports Figures: Tony Hawk perpetual motion?
Everything is solar powered???
Mon 11/16
Make-up work: Complete worksheet CD 9-2 front except for challenge problem (in file)
Reviewed energy changes from Friday
Conservation means total energy stays the same
Applied conservation to examples where gravitational potential energy (GPE) turned into kinetic energy (KE)
GPE depends directly on height
KE Eureka video
Fri 11/13
Make-up work: Get packet and complete graphic organizer (in file)
Energy is the ability to do work! (Both measured in Joules)
Identified 3 kinds of Potential energy and 2 kinds of Kinetic Energy
Tried 6 demos around the room of how energy changed from one form to another
Thu 11/12
Make-up: N/A
Science Museum Field Trip - Make-up day / Mythbusters
Wed 11/11
Make-up work: Get class data (in file) and then write a summary
Try pulling a dishwasher (500 g mass) into a truck using ramp at different angles
What did we find? No free lunches -- all about the same amount of work!
Tue 11/10
Make-up work: Complete "work"sheet #1-5 (in file)
Create examples of work
Catchy Physics Phrases: force and work
Eureka 8: work
Practice using the formula W=F*d
Mon 11/9
Make-up work: Use the internet or notes to answer the following questions: 1&2) What are two different everyday meanings of the word work (OTHER THAN having a job)? 3) If I blow up a balloon, am I doing physics work? Why or why not? (Slip in file)
Brainstormed: What does work mean in everyday life?
In physics: work is when a force causes a displacement
4 demos: Did Leslie do physics work?